World leaders will flock from Monday to the COP 27 Climate Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, while Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi called for quick action by all countries to develop a road map that protects the world from the effects of climate change.

Al-Sisi expressed his pride in Egypt's hosting of the international conference, and said - in a series of tweets on Twitter - that the current session of the Climate Summit comes at a very sensitive time in which our world is exposed to existential dangers and unprecedented challenges that affect the survival of our planet and our ability to live in it.

Al-Sisi affirmed that his country is looking forward to the conference’s exit from the stage of promises to the stage of implementation with concrete measures on the ground that build on the foregoing, especially the outcomes of the Glasgow Summit and the Paris Agreement.

Al-Sisi expressed his pride in his country’s hosting of the Climate Summit (French)

interconnected crises

About 110 heads of state and government will make interventions today, Monday, and tomorrow, Tuesday, in front of the delegates gathered in the resort located in the southern Sinai Peninsula, in the framework of the summit.

Leaders are under great pressure to bolster their climate pledges in the face of rising warming, and to provide financial support to the poor countries most affected by climate change.

The summit comes amid multiple interrelated crises shaking the world, namely the Russian invasion of Ukraine, inflation, the risk of recession, the energy crisis with renewed support for fossil energy sources, and the food crisis, at a time when the world population will exceed 8 billion people.

This "multi-sided crisis" may push the climate change crisis to the second place in the list of priorities, even though its devastating repercussions were most evident in 2022, with deadly floods, heat waves and drought that wreaked havoc on crops.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is absent from the conference, while his American counterpart, Joe Biden, who is busy with the midterm elections, will visit Sharm El-Sheikh quickly on November 11.


compensation for poor countries

The world is watching with interest the announcements related to aid to poor countries, which are usually the countries most vulnerable to the repercussions of climate warming, although their responsibility is limited, as their emissions of greenhouse gases are very few.

In a gesture that many activists hope will not be merely symbolic, delegates to the summit on Sunday decided for the first time to include the issue of financing the damage caused by global warming on the official agenda of the conference.

These damages are estimated at tens of billions of dollars and are expected to continue to rise. The recent floods that inundated a third of Pakistan alone caused damages estimated at more than 30 billion dollars.

Weak countries are calling for these repercussions for a special financing mechanism, but the rich countries have reservations about this, as they fear that they will be officially responsible, and say that the climate financing system is complex enough in its current situation.